[Eril-l] [EXTERNAL] Keeping on top of AI search options on major platforms

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Hi,

The only other two I made note of (at least a month or so ago) were Oxford
Academic (which was/is in Beta and is already enabled) and Oxford English
Dictionary.

Erika Boardman, UNC Charlotte

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
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> Hi, all.
> Our team here at UPEI is doing an internal analysis to decide if we want
> to enable the new EBSCO "AI Natural Language search" option in EDS.
>
> That got me looking at our other platforms to see what options we have.
> From what I can find:
> Proquest's Research platform doesn't have one yet
> Elsevier has them on Scopus and Sciencedirect but they cost extra
> (separately for each platform)
> Wiley doesn't have one yet.
>
> That's as far as I've got. We are looking at AI tools as an alternative to
> boolean search, not options to create AI summaries of the search results,
> which we frankly consider worse than useless in an educational context.
>
> We are also looking at Consensus.app which so far seems to do this well on
> their own platform, but costs extra and wouldn't be integrated with EDS,
> our discovery platform.
>
> Does anyone have a list of major academic publisher/aggregator platforms
> that have a free AI search option that may need to be deliberately enabled?
>
> Thanks!
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